Industrial Automation Magazine India

The International Society of Automation recognises 2020 ISA Fellows and Awardees

Published on : Thursday 17-09-2020

These programs honour the remarkable achievements and contributions of ISA members – Himanshu Patel and Dattatray Sawant among awardees from India.

September, 2020 – The International Society of Automation (ISA) recently announced the 2020 ISA Fellows and Celebrating Excellence award recipients.

The recognitions reflect and honour the outstanding efforts of ISA members in supporting and advancing the Society and the automation community. There are four new ISA Fellows and 14 Celebrating Excellence awardees in 2020. The Admissions Committee was chaired by Bridget Fitzpatrick. The Honors & Awards Committee was chaired by Brian Curtis.

The esteemed Fellow member grade is one of ISA's highest honours. To earn this distinction, a Senior Member must possess outstanding and acknowledged engineering or scientific attainments, must receive peer evaluations leading to recommendation for election by the Society Admissions Committee, and finally, must be elected by a majority vote of the Society's Executive Board. In ISA’s 75-year history, 495 ISA Fellows have been elected.

This year, the following individuals have been elevated to the distinguished grade of ISA Fellow:

1- Donald Dunn – WS Nelson, Highlands, Texas, USA. For the education and standardisation of terminology, requirements, and guidance for the process industry-wide safety area of alarm management.

2- David Rahn – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, Md., USA. For the development and implementation of new methodology and acceptance criteria to establish the reliability of critical safety equipment of nuclear power plants.

3- John Sorge – Retired, Birmingham, Ala., USA. In recognition of his leading, advocating, sponsoring, and technically contributing to activities, projects, and organizations to advance instrumentation and control research on and application of new power generation technologies.

4- Richard Van Fleet – Andritz, Inc., Cumming, Ga., USA. For providing subject matter expertise and technical support relating to sensor development and implementation of advanced process control and sustained process optimization of pulping and bleaching processes.

2020 Celebrating Excellence Awardees

The ISA awards program endeavours to stimulate, enhance, encourage, acknowledge, and reward outstanding contributions to ISA and the automation profession by providing an avenue for individuals to compete for recognition within established categories.

1- Excellence in Technical Innovation, Endowed by Honeywell UOP: Soliman Almadim – Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Eastern Saudi Arabia

2- Excellence in Technical Presentation: Abdulkadar Susnerwala – Air Liquide, Houston, Texas, USA

3- Excellence in Education: Himanshu Patel – Institute of Technology, Nirma University Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

4- Mentoring Excellence: Greg McMillan – Emerson, Austin, Texas, USA

5- Excellence in Enduring Service: Catherine Andrews – Hile Controls of Alabama, Pelham, Ala., USA; James Haw – La Porte, Texas, USA; Ian Verhappen – Industrial Automation Networks, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Clifford Wuertz – Cypress, Texas, USA

6- Division Leader Excellence: Ed Naranjo – Process Measurement and Control Division, Honeywell, Eagan, Minn., USA

7- Section Excellence: Dattatray Sawant – ISA Maharashtra Section, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

8- Standards Excellence: Donald Dunn – WS Nelson, Highlands, Texas, USA

9- Volunteer Leader of the Year: Cheri Haarmeyer – Pearland, Texas, USA

The International Society of Automation (isa.org) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1945 to create a better world through automation. ISA advances technical competence by connecting the automation community to achieve operational excellence. The organisation develops widely-used global standards; certifies industry professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and technical articles; hosts conferences and exhibits; and provides networking and career development programs for its 40,000 members and 400,000 customers around the world.